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Choosing The Right Stargazing App

Choosing an astronomy app to use for tablets and smartphones can be a really daunting challenge. When searching the the App store for an stargazing application, the available options are so plentiful and overwhelming. Some…



Choosing An Astronomy Weather Site

Finding good weather and meteorological application focused and useful for astronomy can be a challenge as resources are numerous and provide a varying degree of data. Moreover, many sites provide the same data in a…


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The Road to Making Space Affordable

Space–the “final” frontier as some would say; whereas, others would say a less-than-affordable frontier. Making space On Thursday March 30th, 2017, SpaceX launched a “recycled” or “flight proven” rocket that in April 2016 had launched…


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NASA Finds 7 Earth-Sized Planets But Now What??

A few days ago, NASA put a press release for a major announcement on Wednesday February 22nd, 2017. Rumor was rampant, with speculation everywhere. There was talk about members of the Spitzer Space Telescopes discovering…